variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease

Plans for the new FOLs coincide with the U.S. Army’s recruitment of
mercenaries to establish posts – known as Combined Country Personnel Recovery
Centers – throughout the Caribbean and Latin America to rescue pilots downed
during surveillance and crop-eradication missions
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/16/16225/4492

Porn star and former gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey will be joining her
boss, Kick Ass Pictures president Mark Kulkis, in attending a dinner with
President
http://www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1020

South Korea's central bank will not intervene any further in foreign exchange
markets, the governor of the Bank of Korea said on Wednesday in comments likely
to unsettle financial markets.


“I believe that we now have sufficient reserves to secure our sovereign
credibility, so I do not anticipate increasing the amount of foreign reserves
further,” Park Seung told the Financial Times. South Korea's foreign currency
reserves stand at $206bn the fourth largest in the world.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e0b2974c-c7c7-11d9-9765-00000e2511c8.html

But the measure being written by Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., would give the FBI
new power to issue administrative subpoenas, which are not reviewed by a judge
or grand jury, for quickly obtaining records, electronic data or other evidence
in terrorism investigations, according to aides for the GOP majority on the
committee who briefed reporters Wednesday.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB00Y18W8E.html

A lack of job creation at home due to slower-than-expected economic growth has
prompted the government to intensify efforts to export workers as a solution to
the unemployment problem.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20050519.@04&irec=3

China signed an agreement with the WHO, details of which were revealed on
Monday, allowing Taiwanese medical officials limited technical involvement in
WHO affairs, but Taipei felt this did not go far enough.

"Taiwan can participate only as part of the Chinese delegation and any
participation will be under the approval of the Beijing governement," said
Taiwan's Deputy Foreign Minister Kau Ying-Mao at a Geneva press conference.

"This kind of condition is absolutely unacceptable," he insisted.

Taiwan was forced out of the WHO in 1972, a year after it lost its United
Nations China seat to Beijing.
http://www.sinodaily.com/2005/050517155922.x25oe8jn.html

Cuba will gradually switch to the open-source Linux operating system for its
state computers, eliminating its exclusive use of Microsoft Windows, the
government daily Juventud Rebelde reported Tuesday.
http://www.spacedaily.com/2005/050517195819.baulpoq2.html

"We have found our Paul Allen," Canadian Arrow team leader Geoff
Sheerin told United Press International.

The team is renaming its venture PlanetSpace, a 50-50 partnership with investor
Chirinjeev Kathuria, an Indian-American physician-turned-businessman and
aspiring politician
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/tourism-05s.html

Video re-write
http://www.slaney.org/covell/interval/1997-012/

Lt Goodrum is a veteran of two Gulf wars. He returned from the first a hero,
from the second a suicidal wreck.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4474715.stm

It has arrived early; it's bigger than ever and it promises a summer of death
and destruction. The annual "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico -
starved of oxygen, and thus killing fish and underwater vegetation - has
appeared earlier than usual this year.
http://www.rense.com/general65/seas.htm

Two out of three Americans with type-2 diabetes do not have their disease under
control and risk early deaths from stroke, heart attack or kidney failure as
well as blindness and limb loss, according to a report published on Wednesday.

Doctors and patients alike need to do more to test for diabetes and then to
control it with diet, exercise and, if necessary, drugs, the report said.
http://www.rense.com/general65/diak.htm

The prototype model has already been successfully tested using a number of
inputs including low-grade coal, wood waste and other biomass, yielding superior
results with lower costs and emissions than currently available technology. The
SynGas technology produces electricity and/or pipeline quality synthetic gas, as
a replacement for quickly depleting natural gas and oil, at low costs, with the
additional benefit of zero airborne emissions.
http://pesn.com/2005/05/16/6900096_Syngas/

[Photos of soliders wounded in action. Anyone who has thumbed through this blog
may have picked up on the fact that these guys are being maimed for no good
reason.]
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/wounded/gallery.htm

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) Thursday criticized government
proposals for police to ask the religion of people stopped and searched as
provocative and suggested it could lead to abuse.

"The last thing we want is when an officer questions somebody as to their
faith, that should be an indicator of what action the officer should take,"
MCB Secretary General Iqbal Sacranie said.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0505190831172431.htm

Inhofe said there was "a growing network of support for extremists like ELF
and ALF," and he singled out People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
for giving money to members of both groups.

PETA claims more than 800,000 members. Its president, Ingrid Newkirk, declined
to appear at the hearing, but general counsel Jeffrey Kerr denied Inhofe's
allegation in a written statement.

"PETA has no involvement with alleged ALF or ELF actions. PETA does not
support terrorism. PETA does not support violence," Kerr said.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/19/domestic.terrorism/index.html

What sets the Witt demo apart—way apart—is that the technology used to
“virtually delete” the skater can now be applied in real time, live, even as a
camera records a scene and instantly broadcasts it to viewers. In the fraction
of a second between video frames, any person or object moving in the foreground
can be edited out, and objects that aren’t there can be edited in and made to
look real. “Pixel plasticity,” Livingston calls it. The implication for those at
the satellite imagery conference was sobering: Pictures from orbit may not
necessarily be what the satellite’s electronic camera actually recorded.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000711055157/http:/www.techreview.com/articles/july
00/amato.htm

"No point on Earth remained undisturbed," said Roger Bilham of the
University of Colorado.

Ground movement of at least 0.4 inch occurred everywhere as a result of the
strongest quake in more than 40 years, though the sensation was not noticed in
many areas.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-05-19-quake_x.htm?csp=24&RM_Exclude=Juno

"I think that this could still fail," the officer said at the
briefing, referring to the American enterprise in Iraq. "It's much more
likely to succeed, but it could still fail."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051905Y.shtml

Senior military and space officials of the European Union, Canada, China and
Russia have objected publicly to the notion of American space superiority.

They think that "the United States doesn't own space - nobody owns
space," said Teresa Hitchens, vice president of the Center for Defense
Information, a policy analysis group in Washington that tends to be critical of
the Pentagon. "Space is a global commons under international treaty and
international law."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/business/18space.html?ei=5065&en=60787fcf0b0f0
12c&ex=1116993600&adxnnl=1&partner=MYWAY&adxnnlx=1116389179-cuLSydFa9CCBN0Mvzsfi
lA&pagewanted=print

Vladimir Yermakov, senior counsellor at the Russian embassy in Washington, on
Tuesday told a conference on space militarisation that Russia was working
through diplomatic channels to urge the US not to move towards fielding weapons
in space. But he said Russia would have to react, possibly with force, if the US
successfully put a "combat weapon" in space.

In an interview yesterday, Mr Yermakov emphasised that Russia's priority was to
solve the problem diplomatically. Russia has voluntarily declared that it will
not be the first country to place weapons in space in an effort to encourage the
US to move away from space weaponisation.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3b1030dc-c804-11d9-9765-00000e2511c8.html

[Prety soon animal lovers will getting a visit from the FBI. When goldfish are
outlawed, only outlaws will have goldfish.]

Since 1993, when ELF declared solidarity with ALF, "there has been a
convergence of agendas," said Carson Carroll, deputy assistant director for
field operations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the
nation's premier bomb investigators.

"The most worrisome trend to law enforcement and private industry alike has
been the increase in willingness by these movements to resort to the use of
incendiary and explosive devices," Mr. Carroll said.
http://www.rense.com/general65/FBIcallsanimalrightsact.htm

The world's worst outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus has claimed 311 lives
in Angola, a joint statement by Angola's health ministry and the World Health
Organisation said.
http://www.rense.com/general65/marburgvirustollinangola.htm

Here's how the system might work:

At the store, someone buying a new DVD would have to provide a password or some
kind of biometric data, like a fingerprint or iris scan, which would be added to
the DVD's RFID tag.

Then, when the DVD was popped into a specially equipped DVD player, the viewer
would be required to re-enter his or her password or fingerprint. The system
would require consumers to buy new DVD players with RFID readers.
http://www.rense.com/general65/newRFIDantipiracysystem.htm

600 MUSLIMS, murdered by their secular US puppet dictator, who stashes his gold
in the Bank of England, whose daughter was caught with a plane full of gold in
Moscow, our man who approves of boiling people alive. The writing is on the
wall, Mr Karimov.
http://www.rense.com/general65/uz.htm

Brain samples from a California man whose neurologist suspected may have been
the first person to acquire human mad cow disease in the United States have been
sent to France to be re-analyzed, United Press International has learned.

Patrick Hicks, 49, of Riverside, Calif., died late last year. U.S. authorities
in January ruled out variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, or vCJD, which humans
can contract from eating beef products contaminated with the mad cow pathogen.
http://www.rense.com/general65/MADDO.HTM

Unfortunately, she became "so aroused by the 21⁄2-inch vibrating bullet inside that she fainted" then "fell against shelves and banged her head". This prompted the attendance of the paramedics who "found the black leatherette panties still buzzing". Having disabled the orgasmatronic underwear, they then whisked the senseless shopper to hospital where she made a complete recovery. Staff handed her back the Passion Pants upon discharge, discreetly concealed in a plastic bag.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/18/vibrating_knickers/